Title Falling monuments, reluctant ruins : the persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid / edited by Hilton Judin

Published Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction / Hilton Judin -- Part one: lands -- Land dispossession and the ghosts of the Medupi Power Station / Faeeza Ballim -- A community journey: return to Juliwe Cemetery in Roodepoort, Johannesburg / Eric Itzkin -- Public memory and transformation at Constitution Hill and Gandhi Square in Johannesburg / Temba John Dawson Middelmann -- Ejaradini: notes toward modelling black gardens as a response to the coloniality of museums / MADEYOULOOK -- Part two: buildings -- Johannesburg Central Police Station and the photograph as evidence / Sally Gaule -- The persistence of Robben Island: abolition and the prison museum / Kelly Gillespie -- The Apartheid Pass Office in Johannesburg and a heritage of destruction / Hilton Judin -- Indian trading, Art Deco and urban modernity in a segregated town: Jubliee House in Krugersdorp / Arianna Lissoni and Roshan Dadoo -- An uncertain heritage and resistance: transforming the Drill Hall in Johannesburg / Barbara Morovich and Pauline Guinard -- Part three: statues, as monuments -- Creating spaces of memorialisation: New Deville Wood (France) and SS Mendi (South Africa) / Yasmin Mayat and Brendan Hart -- Re-historicising credo Mutwa's Kwa Khaya Lendaba Cultural Village in Soweto / Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Tara Weber -- Facing (down) the coloniser? The Mandela statue at Cape Town's city hall / Cynthia Kros -- 'Where's our monument?' commemorating Indian indentured labour in South Africa / Goolam Vahed -- Decolonisation, monuments, and a new architectural language / Nnamdi Elleh Summary This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Apartheid and architecture -- South Africa Architecture and race -- South Africa Architecture and state -- South Africa Monuments -- South Africa. Historic buildings -- South Africa ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General. Apartheid and architecture Architecture and race Architecture and state Historic buildings Monuments South Africa Form Electronic book Author Judin, Hilton, editor. ISBN 1776146697 9781776146697 1776146700 9781776146703

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